
README file for the replication of 
"The Gender Income Gap and the Role of Education Revisited: A Replication of Bobbitt-Zeher (2007)"

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AUTHOR CONTACT (as of Feb 2016):

Fabian Ochsenfeld
Goethe University
Institute for Sociology
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
60323 Frankfurt, Germany
Phone: +49.69.789.3661
E-mail: ochsenfeld@soz.uni-frankfurt.de

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DATA:

The NELS:88 Public Use Data ("NELS_88_00_BYF4STU_v1_0.dta") and the IPEDS Public Use Date ("c2001_a2dig_data_stata.csv") can be downloaded from NCES: 
https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/nels88/
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/Home/UseTheData

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DO-FILES:

There are 4 do files:
master.do
variables_ft.do
variables_pt.do
analysis.do

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ADO:

To run "analysis.do" the oaxaca(Jann 2008) and esttab(Jann 2007) packages must be installed. 

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HOW TO:
1. Copy the four do-files to the "Do-Files" folder.
2. In master.do change directory (line 10) to your directory.
3. In that directory, create three folders named "Do-Files", "Data", and "Output".
4. Place "NELS_88_00_BYF4STU_v1_0.dta" and "c2001_a2dig_data_stata.csv" (to be obtained from NCES) in the "Data" folder.
5. run "master.do". Tables and figures that contain the estimation results and log files will be saved into the "Output" folder.

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